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  • March 2013
  • Teaching Note

Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer (TN)

By: Michael Norton
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  • 02 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of happiness View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

I. Norton and Kate Barasz, conducted an experiment asking participants to decide between two different dating partners based on their online profiles. Each profile contained answers to intimate and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance

Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn & Jordi Quoidbach
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Unexpected Benefits of Deciding by Mind Wandering

By: Colleen Giblin, Carey K. Morewedge and Michael I. Norton
The mind wanders, even when people are attempting to make complex decisions. We suggest that such mind wandering—allowing one's thoughts to wander until the "correct" choice comes to mind—can positively impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Satisfaction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cognition and Thinking
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Negotiation Katherine Coffman Kevin Mohan Julian J. Zlatev Max H. Bazerman Michael Norton Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Livia Alfonsi Alex Chan Jillian Jordan Amit Goldenberg Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details
  • 21 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

still be stymied if they try to consider every single laptop on the market. (In the article, Norton and Ariely cite a study by social psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper, who showed that grocery... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Coffman , Kevin Mohan , Julian J. Zlatev , Max H. Bazerman , Michael Norton Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Livia Alfonsi , Alex Chan , Jillian Jordan , Amit Goldenberg ,... View Details
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Management January 2026 J 3.0 Kadeem Noray Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Michael Norton Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 ^ back to... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time

A novel approach to repaying debt could help consumers free themselves from crushing credit card balances faster, according to new research. Rather than asking borrowers to make payments toward their total balances, Harvard Business School Professor View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • 10 Jul 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Persuasive Appeal of Stigma

Keywords: by Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney & Dan Ariely
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Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety

By: Alison Wood Brooks, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I. Norton and Maurice Schweitzer
From public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Performance; Emotions
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Negotiation Katherine Coffman Kevin Mohan Julian J. Zlatev Max H. Bazerman Michael Norton Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Livia Alfonsi Alex Chan Jillian Jordan Amit Goldenberg Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • News

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

  • 03 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

winning team). But what's the point? Behavioral scientist Michael I. Norton became interested in mourning rituals after reading Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent

By: Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
We examine how a simple handshake—a gesture that often occurs at the outset of social interactions—can influence deal-making. Because handshakes are social rituals, they are imbued with meaning beyond their physical features. We propose that during mixed-motive... View Details
Keywords: Handshake; Cooperation; Affiliation; Competition; Negotiation; Nonverbal Communication; Negotiation Participants; Behavior; Communication Intention and Meaning; Negotiation Deal
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  • 10 Nov 2014
  • News

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

  • 17 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

instead provide distraction by answering something they would rather have been asked. And what is more, oftentimes their listeners either do not notice the verbal sleight of hand or do not mind it. New research View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • October 2009
  • Article

Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web

By: Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton
This research explores how partitioning attributes in online search interfaces changes the valuations of those attributes-and impacts subsequent choice-such that attributes that are displayed as separate categories tend to receive greater decision weight than... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Management; Demand and Consumers; Research; Internet and the Web; Valuation
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  • 13 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

research will get people to think, ‘Hey, how can I spend a little bit of money in a way that will save me time?’” Whillans co-wrote the study with Michael I. Norton, the Harold M. Brierley Professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman